'I told him not to follow the American dream,' mother of drowned Salvadoran migrant laments
SAN SALVADOR - The mother of a Salvadoran man who drowned with his young daughter while trying to reach U.S. soil, becoming a global symbol of the perils of migration, said she urged her son not to leave, fearing danger would meet him on the long journey north.
"Ever since he first told me that they wanted to go, I told him not to," Ramirez said, recalling conversations with her son."I had a feeling, it was such an ugly premonition. As a mother, I sensed that something could happen." The photograph of Oscar and Valeria, nestled beside her father with her arm draped around his neck, drew comparisons to an iconic 2015 shot of Aylan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian refugee, whose body washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Pope Francis expressed great sorrow upon viewing the image, said the Vatican, whose newspaper published the photograph on its front page. That system has contributed to growing numbers of migrants crossing the border illegally to hand themselves into authorities and ask for asylum.
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